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October Blood Donors Help Patients Like Jovanna, Las Vegas Shooting Survivor & Arizona Resident

Photo: Jovanna Calzadillas, a Las Vegas shooting survivor who traveled from Arizona to the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival with her husband Frank

Nonprofit blood services provider Vitalant urges all eligible donors to help meet the critical patient need for lifesaving transfusions by giving blood in October.  It is the blood already on the shelves that saves lives in emergencies, and the 6th anniversary of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting is a reminder that tragedy can strike at a moment’s notice.  To make a blood donation appointment, visit vitalant.orgdownload and use the Vitalant app or call 877-25-VITAL (877-258-4825).

Blood donors help people like Jovanna Calzadillas, a Las Vegas shooting survivor who traveled from Arizona to the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival with her husband Frank.  After suffering a severe gunshot wound to the head, Frank carried her to safety and enlisted the help of bystanders and police officers to rush her to the hospital.  Jovanna was among the first to arrive at the Las Vegas University Medical Center.  With a prognosis of un-survivable injuries, she made a remarkable recovery thanks to her doctors and blood donors.

Donors of all blood types, especially type O are needed every day to replenish what is used to help patients. In an emergency, O-negative is crucial when there is not time to determine a patient’s blood type, and O-positive can help anyone with Rh-positive blood.

About Vitalant

Vitalant (Vye-TAL-ent)) is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit blood and biotherapies healthcare organizations, providing hospitals and patients across the U.S. a safe blood supply, specialized laboratory services, transfusion medicine expertise and world-renowned research. Individuals generously donating blood, volunteering and giving financially are essential to our lifesaving mission. Learn more at vitalant.org.

 

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